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expiredNeatGuitarIsDumbPhuc posted Jan 17, 2022 09:27 AM
Costco Members - Valid 1/17/22 through 2/13/22. While supplies last - $379.99: 3-Pack (RBK753S AX4200) NETGEAR Orbi Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi 6 System
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank kevinca
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My expectation was for these to work well out of the box, esp with wired back haul
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Netgear has treated the Orbi community like dog crap. For a few months the system had been plagued by awful connectivity issues resulting in dropped connections and disconnecting video and audio conferencing. The company stayed silent, didn't offer any consolation or immediate resolution, and trickled out some minor firmware update attempts that did nothing. Last week a firmware (4.6.7.5) was shared that finally resolves the craziness after updating the devices and power cycling them (factory resetting is recommended if you setup customized configurations like port forwarding and static assignments), but they haven't rolled it out onto the auto-update system yet - you have to manually install it. I had downgraded to a previous firmware not plagued by issues and blocked updates to have the system stay usable for me until I installed this new update late last week. The system has performed very well and really is great on paper, but I friggen hate being treated like an asshole after spending over $1000 on the particular system I had ordered. I recommend anyone still dealing with the connectivity problems to turn to the community forum and download the new firmware - it has been rock solid for almost a week now and we do a lot of conference calls out of our home. If there was any support, empathy, or communication what-so-ever by Netgear while they were bungling through fixing their mistakes, I would've been much more positive about the system. Before the bugs were introduced, and now that they have finally been resolved, the system is handedly the most impressive consumer mesh system on the market. The hardware is surprisingly robust and, then the software isn't messed up, it works amazingly well. I plan on returning to the UniFi ecosystem next time I update my network equipment, but I don't plan on that upgrade anytime soon.
Technically this is a good buy and safe purchase: the bugs are now fixed if you do the update yourself and you can now disable automatic firmware updates, which I highly recommend you do, to prevent any further nightmares introduced by Netgear. You lucked out not having to suffer from the company's B.S.
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that being said, when the product works, it's excellent. I went on to buy another node for my house and it made things better as expected. I'm super tempted to grab this based on the (entire) quoted message above, but will wait to read a few more comments from people here.
Netgear has treated the Orbi community like dog crap. For a few months the system had been plagued by awful connectivity issues resulting in dropped connections and disconnecting video and audio conferencing. The company stayed silent, didn't offer any consolation or immediate resolution, and trickled out some minor firmware update attempts that did nothing. Last week a firmware (4.6.7.5) was shared that finally resolves the craziness after updating the devices and power cycling them (factory resetting is recommended if you setup customized configurations like port forwarding and static assignments), but they haven't rolled it out onto the auto-update system yet - you have to manually install it. I had downgraded to a previous firmware not plagued by issues and blocked updates to have the system stay usable for me until I installed this new update late last week. The system has performed very well and really is great on paper, but I friggen hate being treated like an asshole after spending over $1000 on the particular system I had ordered. I recommend anyone still dealing with the connectivity problems to turn to the community forum and download the new firmware - it has been rock solid for almost a week now and we do a lot of conference calls out of our home. If there was any support, empathy, or communication what-so-ever by Netgear while they were bungling through fixing their mistakes, I would've been much more positive about the system. Before the bugs were introduced, and now that they have finally been resolved, the system is handedly the most impressive consumer mesh system on the market. The hardware is surprisingly robust and, then the software isn't messed up, it works amazingly well. I plan on returning to the UniFi ecosystem next time I update my network equipment, but I don't plan on that upgrade anytime soon.
Technically this is a good buy and safe purchase: the bugs are now fixed if you do the update yourself and you can now disable automatic firmware updates, which I highly recommend you do, to prevent any further nightmares introduced by Netgear. You lucked out not having to suffer from the company's B.S.
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That being said, I think everyone can agree the very limited customer support (90 days) Netgear provides for what is a flagship series of routers is outrageous. If I did have a problem, I might feel differently about this product but so far I've been lucky.
Also this router system with Ethernet backhaul has delivered very consistent wifi for our house so far for 1 wk. Upgraded from Nighthawk system.
But my true dream is a ubiquiti
EDIT: 1/31/22 - It's been a couple weeks now. No gripes. All of my devices are connected and no disconnects. All my older devices with 2.4ghz worked fine with the single SSID for all channels. This is definitely way better than some of the negative reviews suggested.
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